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Homemade Earth Day Cookies

Homemade Earth Day Cookies

April 21, 2014 By Katie Chiavarone 5 Comments

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Earth Day is one of my favorite holidays to celebrate with the kiddos. I love anything that has to do with the outdoors and celebrating our great, green earth. We start conversations about trees, soil, recycling and endangered species…and what better way to introduce the topic that with some hands-on, fun, homemade earth day cookies!

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These homemade Earth Day cookies are SO easy to make! Check out just how simple they are!

Homemade Earth Day Cookies – Simple to Make, Fun to Eat!

How to Make the Cookies

I was inspired by the Tammilee Tips blog.  You can definitely make these from scratch, which I recommend mostly for all of the scooping and measuring opportunities for kids (or you can cheat like we did and buy a sugar cookie mix). Baking is such a great way to work on early math skills with kids, and providing them with hands-on opportunities to create is always fun. However, some days, the store-bought stuff will have to do.

These homemade Earth Day cookies are SO easy to make! Check out just how simple they are!
 

Once you have made your cookie dough, separate the dough into two bowls.

Color one blue and one green with your food coloring. We like to use this natural food coloring to try to eliminate some of the dyes since the kids will be eating these. This year, we are going to experiment with using cabbage to dye our dough! Stay tuned…

 
These homemade Earth Day cookies are SO easy to make! Check out just how simple they are!
 
 
These homemade Earth Day cookies are SO easy to make! Check out just how simple they are!
 

Now comes the fun part, take little pieces of each color and roll them in a ball together. You want to do this part gently so that the colors don’t mix together. The kids can easily do it, each cookie will come out slightly different, but still resembling an earth. Place the balls on a greased cookie sheet or one lined with parchment paper (my preference) and bake according to cookie directions.

 
These homemade Earth Day cookies are SO easy to make! Check out just how simple they are!
 

Once the earth day cookies are done baking they will resemble the planet!

 
These homemade Earth Day cookies are SO easy to make! Check out just how simple they are!
 

Not entirely accurate but you get the point! And a great way to get kids thinking about Earth Day. Pair these with our Earth Day seed paper!

More Earth Day Activities to Try:

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Related:  Spring Play Tips for Kids: 15 Activities


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Filed Under: Preschool Science, Recipes, science, Spring, Toddler Science Tagged With: baking, celebration, cookies, cooking, earth day, Homemade, kids, kids cooking, treats

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Comments

  1. Anonymous says

    April 22, 2014 at 1:36 am

    Brilliant Katie! They look like little worlds and I am sure they were delicious and fun to make together!

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  2. Jules Ruud says

    April 2, 2016 at 10:39 pm

    I love earth day and who doesn’t love cookies? These actually look like little planet Earths. Much morer than I would have imagined when all you do is squish the dough together. We are going to make these. Love it!

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  3. Melissa says

    April 21, 2016 at 7:16 pm

    How big do the balls need to be? Thanks!

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    • kchiavarone@gmail.com says

      April 21, 2016 at 7:17 pm

      We did ours about an inch 🙂

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